The 34 th Annual International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance was presented by The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) in partnership with the Collage Dance Collective.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Solange Knowles to Josephine Baker, Black women have been breaking the mold in the field of dance for generations. Over the ...

Five programs run by the city of Dallas' Office of Arts and Culture will receive about $248,000 in funding, which is being redistributed from Dallas Black Dance Theatre. In December of last year, the ...

Modern Black femme artists are reveling in the spoils of dance music reentering the mainstream, not that it hasn’t been here all along. Staking claim to 1990s house music were vocalists Caron Wheeler, ...

When Deidre Sears stood center stage at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, watching her students take their bows to a roaring audience, it wasn't just a career milestone—it was a full-circle moment.

Editor’s Note: This article was produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Since it began over a decade ago, the Black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robin Williams, who has been a ballet dancer for over 60 years, said she was recently able to buy brown pointe shoes for the first ...

When Dallas Black Dance Theatre was founded in 1976, there were no smartphones. There was no Internet. There was no Instagram. Now, dancers build personal brands and grow followers for their art on ...

Step into almost any day party, house party, or nightclub and you’re sure to hear dance music made by Black women and femmes. Amapiano, house, Jersey club, and jungle: the sounds that make up a rich ...

When the Joel Hall Dancers needed someone to succeed the company’s namesake and longtime artistic director, its board turned to a trusted insider: William Gill, who’d been a dancer and artistic leader ...

Karen Warrington used to be a lead dancer and choreographer with the Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble, right from the company’s founding in 1967. The North Philly native grew up in the 1950s ...

From Solange Knowles to Josephine Baker, Black women have been breaking the mold in the field of dance for generations. Over the last decade, Black women have made some major strides in dance. In 2015 ...